Posted by shyam335
have anyone seen this?
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create video games in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf.
The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce "sensory experiences" such as smells, sounds and images.
"The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex," the patent states. "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."
According to New Scientist magazine, the first to report on the patent, Sony's technique could be an improvement over an existing non-surgical method known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. This activates nerves using rapidly changing magnetic fields, but cannot be focused on small groups of brain cells.
Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told New Scientist he had looked at the Sony patent and "found it plausible." Birbaumer himself has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves.
A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."
cnn
Posted by whizkidd
Interesting!
Posted by 666-999
yeah iv herd about that...........
has anyone managed to see the sonys playstaion9 (PS9)
sneak teaser trailor.
man they demonstrate using computer generated graphics exactly how the experince of virtual reality is possible using implusses sent directly to the brain.
imagin being able to enter the virtual gaming world
.....ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
time will tell i suppose..
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the end is near as man trys to play god!!
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Posted by govigov
I thought such experiments were banned.
Posted by Jim
"The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex"
WTF ?! Yeah I wouldn't use it ! It's your brain afterall !
I allready see some adverts potential in it.
Posted by jontyf
Im worried about that!
But maybe in about ten years the techno.. will have advanced and it will be proved to be good.
But imagine if the console over the internet gaming, got a virus.
Could things like that kill you?
Posted by nickorooster
Well, we don't know yet do we? But seriously, that would be the coolest thing ever!
NIck
Posted by Davo_169
or they are planning their hostile takeover
Posted by numnums
the first transmission will be: "BUY SONY"
[ This Message was edited by: numnums on 2005-04-10 23:49 ]
Posted by DJcreamz
lesuire suit larry here i come
Posted by Davo_169
playboy mansion
Posted by JK
im not sure i understand this but is sony basically gonna make tv's and you can smell what you watch??????
if so i wont watch things like csi with dead people--------- but then again those arent real bodies??????
now im cofused???
jamie oliver and bbc food would be good!!!
Posted by DJcreamz
So in theory, if they tapped into the right part of your brain, pr0n would become a whole lot more intresting ?
Posted by nickorooster
Hell yes! "The Masseuse" - Sense-Remastered
Incidentally, Happy birthday Jenna Jameson! She turned 31 2 days ago
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Nick